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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have noticed a potential bug in playing back
radio channels.&nbsp; The playback time of recorded radio channels
is&nbsp;inflated by almost 40%.&nbsp; This has been confirmed on four North
American satellites on three different providers.&nbsp; The reported time for a
10 minute recording will consistently appear as 13:47.&nbsp; Some have
hypothesized the problem comes from the fact that vdr's timers are based on
video frame rates, which of course don't exist on radio channels.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>World Radio Network (<A
href="http://www.org">wrn.org</A>) is one example, and is broadcast on satellite
worldwide, so perhaps this can be confirmed on other sats outside NA.&nbsp; The
timing problem makes it very difficult to skip commercials or "top of the hour"
news reports or to skip between programming that occurs, for example, every 30
minutes.&nbsp; In America, I have made observations on Telstar5.&nbsp; In
Europe, you can try Sky Digital (Eurobird 1, 28.5E) or Eutelsat Hotbird 6 (13E)
or Afristar (paytv).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Additionally, there&nbsp;appears to be&nbsp;a
problem that some have reported with&nbsp;certain NA provider varying the video
frame rate, causing *underreporting* of playback time, which would seem to
confirm this hypothesis.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>